GANDHINAGAR: : The Army has been alerted as the flood situation continued to remain grim in most parts of Gujarat on Wednesday though there was some respite from rains in south Gujarat.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi convened a high-level meeting after which the Cabinet spokesman and the Urban Development Minister, I.K. Jadeja, said two columns of Army personnel had been asked to remain stand-by at Vadodara and Surat. In addition, three IAF helicopters and six companies of the state reserve police had been kept under the disposal of the authorities to meet any eventuality.

While there was let-up in Bulsar district in south Gujarat after four days of incessant heavy rainfall, most parts of the Saurashtra region, particularly Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Surendranagar districts received heavy to very heavy rainfall since Tuesday, bringing relief to the farmers. Most dams in the Saurashtra region had received water, bringing cheer to the water-starved region.

More than 35,000 people stranded in various rain-affected villages have been evacuated to safer places but at least 400 people in Limda village in Surat district have been marooned in heavy floods.

Most of the rivers in south Gujarat continued to remain in spate though the level in the waterlogged cities of Vadodara, Surat and Broach receded on Wednesday.

Train services on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai and Delhi-Mumbai routes disrupted on Tuesday due to cracks on the railway tracks at Vasad and Ranoli near Vadodara have by and large been restored .

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